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DE » British Army http://stevepollock.de World War II 1939-1945 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:40:31 +0000 en hourly 1 1-Jan-40: Finns Repulse Red Army Assault; Two Million Brits Liable for Military Service; Danes Express Doubts About Continued Independence; Soviets Recall Ambassador to Italy http://stevepollock.de/archives/641 http://stevepollock.de/archives/641#comments Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:00:57 +0000 Steve Pollock http://stevepollock.de/?p=641 http://stevepollock.de/archives/641/feed 0 27-Dec-39: Earthquake Kills 8,000 in Turkey; Poles Executed for Warsaw Shootings; Red Army Ends Mannerheim Line Attacks; Finns Launch Offensives; US Protests British High Seas Seizures; First Indian Troops Arrive in France http://stevepollock.de/archives/631 http://stevepollock.de/archives/631#comments Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:32:10 +0000 Steve Pollock http://stevepollock.de/?p=631 http://stevepollock.de/archives/631/feed 0 17-Dec-39: Soviet Attacks Hammer Mannerheim Line at Summa, Are Repulsed; Finns Refine Successful Tactics, Destroy Two Red Army Divisions; First Canadian Division Lands in Liverpool; French Claim German Reconnaissance Flights Increased Over Western Front http://stevepollock.de/archives/599 http://stevepollock.de/archives/599#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:06:11 +0000 Steve Pollock http://stevepollock.de/?p=599 http://stevepollock.de/archives/599/feed 0 15-Dec-39: Battle of Soumassalmi Begins; Finns See Battlefield Success, Attempt to Open Negotiations, But Refuse to be Conquered; Uruguay Ousts German Battleship; Chamberlain Visits British Expeditionary Force in France http://stevepollock.de/archives/595 http://stevepollock.de/archives/595#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:06:51 +0000 Steve Pollock http://stevepollock.de/?p=595 http://stevepollock.de/archives/595/feed 0 9-Dec-39: First British Soldier to Die in WWII Killed on Western Front; Finns Halt Soviet Attacks; Soviet-German Relations Strained by Winter War; Germans Deport 1,800 Jews to Soviet-Occupied Poland, Only 200 Survive Winter Trek http://stevepollock.de/archives/540 http://stevepollock.de/archives/540#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:56:02 +0000 Steve Pollock http://stevepollock.de/?p=540 http://stevepollock.de/archives/540/feed 0 4-Dec-39: Finns Fortify Aaland Island; Soviets Continue to Bomb Helsinki, Forcing Evacuation of Much of City’s Population; King George VI Inspects Troops; HMS Nelson Damaged by Mine http://stevepollock.de/archives/530 http://stevepollock.de/archives/530#comments Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:04:36 +0000 Steve Pollock http://stevepollock.de/?p=530 http://stevepollock.de/archives/530/feed 0 23-Nov-39: Scharnhorst, Gneisenau Interrupted During Raid, Sink British Ship; Magnetic Mine Defused; British, Germans Expand Rationing; Hitler Excoriates Generals; Polish Jews Ordered to Wear Star of David http://stevepollock.de/archives/505 http://stevepollock.de/archives/505#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:36:46 +0000 Steve Pollock http://stevepollock.de/?p=505 http://stevepollock.de/archives/505/feed 0 14-Nov-39: Allies Meet Secretly with Belgians; Dyle Plan Accepted; Dutch, Belgian Royal Peace Offers Rejected by Germany; Prague Demonstration Violently Suppressed; Sikorski Arrives in London http://stevepollock.de/archives/474 http://stevepollock.de/archives/474#comments Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:41:32 +0000 Steve Pollock http://stevepollock.de/?p=474 http://stevepollock.de/archives/474/feed 0 11-Nov-39: Germans Say Neutrality of Low Countries Is Assured; BEF Holds Armistice Day Ceremonies on French Battlefields; In Radio Broadcast, Queen Elizabeth Exhorts British Women http://stevepollock.de/archives/457 http://stevepollock.de/archives/457#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:32:28 +0000 Steve Pollock http://stevepollock.de/?p=457 http://stevepollock.de/archives/457/feed 0 29-Oct-39: OKH Takes Fall Gelb Revision to Hitler; Kriegsmarine Gives Go to Passenger Liner Attacks; Chinese Defections to Japanese Increase; Red Army Occupies Agreed Bases in Latvia http://stevepollock.de/archives/430 http://stevepollock.de/archives/430#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:06:48 +0000 Steve Pollock http://stevepollock.de/?p=430 http://stevepollock.de/archives/430/feed 0 28-Oct-39: Molotov Takes Aggressive Stance Towards Finns; Tiso Named First President of Slovakia; Himmler Issues Lebensborn Decree; RAF Shoots Down First Bomber http://stevepollock.de/archives/426 http://stevepollock.de/archives/426#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:57:01 +0000 Steve Pollock http://stevepollock.de/?p=426 http://stevepollock.de/archives/426/feed 0 22-Oct-39: 22-Oct-39: Dr. Goebbels Claims Churchill Lies; Allies Leave Ankara After Successful Pact Inked; Soviets Conduct Elections in Formerly Polish Territories; Western Front Artillery Duels Continue in Rain http://stevepollock.de/archives/394 http://stevepollock.de/archives/394#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:16:49 +0000 Steve Pollock http://stevepollock.de/?p=394 http://stevepollock.de/archives/394/feed 0 21-Oct-39: Four of Nine Heinkel He-115 Seaplanes Downed; Ethnic Germans Repatriated from Italy; General Gamelin Won’t Attack Germans, He Says http://stevepollock.de/archives/392 http://stevepollock.de/archives/392#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:49:24 +0000 Steve Pollock http://stevepollock.de/?p=392 http://stevepollock.de/archives/392/feed 0 19-Oct-39: German OKH Presents Plan for Fall Gelb, the Invasion of France; Turks Ink Treaty With Allies; Brits Note Increase in Road Fatalities Due to Blackout http://stevepollock.de/archives/384 http://stevepollock.de/archives/384#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:20:50 +0000 Steve Pollock http://stevepollock.de/?p=384 http://stevepollock.de/archives/384/feed 0 18-Oct-39: Nordic Leaders Have Conference in Stockholm; Germans Attempt Another Scapa Flow Attack; British, French Meet in Ankara, Turkey http://stevepollock.de/archives/378 http://stevepollock.de/archives/378#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:40:36 +0000 Steve Pollock http://stevepollock.de/?p=378 http://stevepollock.de/archives/378/feed 0